You can find solace in inspiring imperfection quotes and be encouraged to keep going and show grace to yourself. Powerful imperfection quotes help you find the motivation you need to grow and conquer life’s obstacles.
Whether it’s embracing individuality, celebrating mistakes, or simply liking oneself for who they are, these deep imperfection quotes help you learn to be at peace with uncertainty and turn your imperfections into strengths.
These famous imperfection quotes focus on acceptance, kindness, and positivity, while providing a practical outlook on your ever-evolving journey towards self-improvement. So put away your perfectionist mindset and let’s learn how to embrace your imperfections together.
Best Imperfection Quotes
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection. Conrad Hall
Have no fear of perfection you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dali
There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection. James Salter
There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. Steve Maraboli
There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from our being different and always in need of the forgiveness, encouragement and that missing half of ourselves that we are searching for, as the Greek myth tells us, in order to complete ourselves. Eugene Kennedy
The true genius shudders at incompleteness imperfection and usually prefers silence to saying the something which is not everything that should be said. Edgar Allan Poe
I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I’d rather be imperfect than perfect. Sonam Kapoor
For everything in this journey of life we are on, there is a right wing and a left wing for the wing of love there is anger; for the wing of destiny there is fear; for the wing of pain there is healing; for the wing of hurt there is forgiveness; for the wing of pride there is humility; for the wing of giving there is taking; for the wing of tears there is joy; for the wing of rejection there is acceptance; for the wing of judgment there is grace; for the wing of honor there is shame; for the wing of letting go there is the wing of keeping. We can only fly with two wings and two wings can only stay in the air if there is a balance. Two beautiful wings is perfection. There is a generation of people who idealize perfection as the existence of only one of these wings every time. But I see that a bird with one wing is imperfect. An angel with one wing is imperfect. A butterfly with one wing is dead. So this generation of people strive to always cut off the other wing in the hopes of embodying their ideal of perfection, and in doing so, have created a crippled race. C. JoyBell C.
Imperfection is perfection. Flume
One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist. Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist. Stephen Hawking
I find beauty in imperfection. Rachel Morrison
Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together. Brené Brown
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. Thomas Aquinas
People accuse me of falling in love easily. It just means that I’m able to see the beauty in most of the people who cross paths with me and I appreciate it for what it is and also for what it isn’t. Love is imperfect. Falling for someone’s flaws is just as necessary as falling for their strengths. And people like myself, who fall into love easily, are sometimes the loneliest souls around at the end of the day. Ashly Lorenzana
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair. Tokugawa Ieyasu
When someone you love dies, you are given the gift of second chances. Their eulogy is a reminder that the living can turn their lives around at any point. You’re not bound by the past; that is who you used to be. You’re reminded that your feelings are not who you are, but how you felt at that moment. Your bad choices defined you yesterday, but they are not who you are today. Your future doesn’t have to travel the same path with the same people. You can start over. You don’t have to apologize to people that won’t listen. You don’t have to justify your feelings or actions, during a difficult time in your life. You don’t have to put up with people that are insecure and want you to fail. All you have to do is walk forward with a positive outlook, and trust that God has a plan that is greater than the sorrow you left behind. The people of quality that were meant to be in your life won’t need you to explain the beauty of your heart. They already understand what being human is a roller coaster ride of emotions during rainstorms and sunshine, sprinkled with moments when you can almost reach the stars. Shannon L. Alder
Imperfection is the new perfection. Hina Khan
Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty. Amit Ray
Successful design is not the achievement of perfection but the minimization and accommodation of imperfection. Henry Petroski
Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice reduces the imperfection. Toba Beta
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection. Arianna Huffington
To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection, it is a magnificent task tremendous and foolish and human. Louise Erdrich
As we lay hold upon the truth of God, its influence must affect us. It must elevate us. It must remove from us every imperfection. Ellen G. White
Don’t pointless things have a place, too, in this far from perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it’d lose even its imperfection. Haruki Murakami
There’s beauty in imperfection. Kirti Kulhari
Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart. Brene Brown
I don’t love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn’t mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just boring. Perfect is what’s natural or real; that is beauty. Marc Jacobs
Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same. Lois McMaster Bujold
Imperfection is relatable. Lauren Conrad
I hate to complain. No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches. Abigail Adams
I don’t want to call myself a perfectionist, because perfection is imperfection. Ne Yo
If gold rusts, what then can iron do? Geoffrey Chaucer
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state. Thomas de Quincey
Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity. Anthon St. Maarten
The detail adds an element of unexpected something. All fiction is false; what makes it convincing is that it runs alongside the truth. The real world has lots of incidental details, so a painting also has to have that element of imperfection and irregularity, those incidental details. Shaun Tan
But life isn’t something that should be edited. Life shouldn’t be cut. The only way you’ll ever discover what it truly means to be alive and human is by sharing the full experience of what it means to be human and each blemish and freckle that comes with it. Iain Thomas
Being a parent is such a difficult business; you don’t always get things right. And also, you don’t want to be a perfect parent. You need people to be human, and part of it is imperfection. Kelly Macdonald
I’m not looking for the perfect man. I’m looking for the man whose imperfections I can put up with. Devon Ashley
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth. William Ellery Channing
You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, she says. You love them in spite of the fact that they’re not. I don’t know how to respond to that; it’s like being told after thirty five years that the sky, which I’ve seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green. Jodi Picoult
On the contrary, I’m a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film. Walter Salles
I told you before, that there are different ways to fail. Imperfection is inevitable. That’s life. But it doesn’t sound to me like you failed at all, Eve. It sounds like your dream broke, and you’ve been picking up shattered pieces, and blaming yourself when your hands bleed. Talia Hibbert
Monsters are the patron saints of imperfection. Guillermo del Toro
Nothing and no one is perfect. It just takes a good eye to find those hidden imperfections. Daphne Delacroix
A poor self image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat. David D. Burns
A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if all you saw in their life was all bullshit. Michael Bassey Johnson
I can deal with imperfection, but I can’t deal with people who lie to themselves and lie to the world to make the world feel better. Bibi Bourelly
We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That’s what connects us that we’re all broken, all beautifully imperfect. Emilio Estevez
I like imperfection. John Waite
I believe that the measure of my soul is my capacity to love imperfect people. Joseph Grenny
The charge of being ambiguous and indefinite may be brought against every human composition, and necessarily arises from the imperfection of language. Perhaps no two men will express the same sentiment in the same manner and by the same words; neither do they connect precisely the same ideas with the same words. Oliver Ellsworth
But those who seek only reassurance from life will never be more than tourists seeing everything and trying to possess what can only be felt. Beauty is the shadow of imperfection. Simon Van Booy
Therefore it does not help to sneer at the imperfection of today’s reality or to preach absolutes as a daily agenda. Gustav Heinemann
The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive. Jhumpa Lahiri
A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets not politics to drive outcomes. Marsha Blackburn
To be acceptable is for one to ignore his weakness while knowing his strength, to cover the scar even though it’s always there, however, to be impossible is for one to see his weakness as, not an adversary, but the cherry on top of his strength, to rearrange the scar so that it compliments his features. Criss Jami
Every form, not being the whole, must, of necessity, be imperfect; less than the whole, it cannot be identical with the whole, and being less than the whole and, therefore, imperfect by itself, it shows imperfection as evil, and only the totality of a universe can mirror the image of God. Annie Besant
Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive. Jhumpa Lahiri
That concerns me, that we’re reaching out for perfection, when country music has always been about imperfection. Lorrie Morgan
No person is completely wicked, just as no person is perfect. We are all grey. Sweety Shinde
You’ll remember Dr. Rice said that several times It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence. Lee H. Hamilton
No human face is exactly the same in its lines on each side, no leaf perfect in its lobes, no branch in its symmetry. All admit irregularity as they imply change; and to banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality. All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be Effort, and the law of human judgment, Mercy. John Ruskin
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. Marilyn Monroe
Ordinary imperfect people, always choose similarly imperfect people as friends. Haruki Murakami
There is beauty and humility in imperfection. Guillermo del Toro
Elric knew that everything that existed had its opposite. In danger he might find peace. And yet, of course, in peace there was danger. Being an imperfect creature in an imperfect world he would always know paradox. And that was why in paradox there was always a kind of truth. That was why philosophers and soothsayers flourished. In a perfect world there would be no place for them. In an imperfect world the mysteries were always without solution and that was why there was always a great choice of solutions. Michael Moorcock
Perfection itself is imperfection. Vladimir Horowitz
I hog the covers, and my second toe is longer than my big one. My hair has its own zip code. You don’t love someone because they’re perfect. You love them in spite of the fact that they’re not. Jodi Picoult
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. Joseph Addison
We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of the golden key and sincerity found in true mastery. Dejan Stojanovic
Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices so it’s not surprising that they’re getting imperfect results. Jake Sullivan
The eye always fills in the imperfections. Rabih Alameddine
It’s not about finding relevance or perfection or imperfection in objects, but it’s that you can accept yourself and then go out and accept others. Jeff Koons
To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps. Dejan Stojanovic
I think that’s the most beautiful thing about being confident just loving yourself, not caring what everybody else thinks. Because you could be Mother Theresa, and people are still going to try to find some imperfection. Joanna Krupa
It’s made me realize that imperfect is perfectly comfortable to me. Whether it’s a city or my apartment, I feel most at home when things are somewhat flawed. Hoda Kotb
Imperfection is fine. Anna Wintour
There is something perfect to be found in the imperfect: the law keeps balance through the juxtaposition of beauty, which gains perfection through nurtured imperfection. Dejan Stojanovic
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. Soren Kierkegaard
All too often we bemoan our imperfections rather than embrace them as part of the process in which we are brought to God. Cherished emptiness gives God space in which to work. We are pure capacity for God. Let us not, then, take our littleness lightly. It is a wonderful grace. It is a gift to receive. At the same time, let us not get trapped in the confines of our littleness, but keep pushing on to claim our greatness. Remind yourself often, I am pure capacity for God; I can be more. Macrina Wiederkehr
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man. Ernst Fischer
Self-love is not the process of ignoring your flaws. Self love is expanding your awareness to include your flaws and your strengths. Vironika Tugaleva
I love everything about my body. Every bit of it the cellulite, the stretch marks, everything that I thought at one point was an imperfection, I now realize is everything that makes me unique. Denise Bidot
What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it. Barbara Kingsolver
Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so called negative aspects of our life to the side we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life. Jeff Bridges
Are imperfections is which make we grate. Craig Benzine
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell. Ben Okri
It is imperfection not perfection that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development. Rita Levi Montalcini
Sensuality is not about perfection, it’s about inspiration and expression. Lebo Grand
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. H. G. Wells
Dont brag about being perfect imperfections are what makes you attractive. Sandra Chami Kassis
If someone is too perfect they won’t look good. Imperfection is important. Eric Cantona
There is no humility in calling yourself a Christian; placing Christ in the role of colleague. The humility lies in the truth of your imperfection and a more accurate description as a student of Christianity; placing Christ back in the role as head teacher. Steve Maraboli
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. Thomas Carlyle
And I know I said earlier that he was perfect, but he wasn’t perfect, far from it; he could be silly and vain and remote and often cruel and still we loved him, in spite of, because. Donna Tartt
At some point, I’m just of the mind that no art is perfect, and it shouldn’t be perfect. I think it’s beautiful in its imperfection. You could tweak something forever, but you have to let it go and trust it. Colman Domingo
Put no faith in the frailty of men; God is the only one who will never disappoint. Allene vanOirschot
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses. Wislawa Szymborska
Accepting unmanageable imperfections is a sign of a perfect attitude. Sukant Ratnakar
If you ask people what attracted them to the person they love, they never tell you of some perfect feature that focused them on sheer surfaces but rather an imperfection that allowed them to see into their uncharted depths. Eugene Kennedy
Their religion was never something they talked about, aside from offering a brief grace at big meals. They simply tried to abide by the Ten Commandments as best they could, with occasional lapses of racism and prejudice and fractured promises of fidelity. Patricia Williams
Solutionism for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection by means of technology without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy. Evgeny Morozov
I am not a statue that was carved and sculpted to be a perfect masterpiece. I am still being moulded, and forever it shall be so. I am ready to be remodelled in the hands of the world’s greatest sculptor, time. Kathirasan K.
Mothers subject their daughters to a level of scrutiny people usually reserve for themselves. A mother’s gaze is like a magnifying glass held between the sun’s rays and kindling. It concentrates the rays of imperfection on her daughter’s yearning for approval. The result can be a conflagration whoosh. Deborah Tannen
You don’t have to be perfect to be happy. Njau Kihia
I feel like the live record thing is something that I’ve been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I’m continuing to learn what works and what doesn’t work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record. Josh Turner
We are human, and, being human, we are imperfect creatures. Through the process of injury, self examination, and amends, we grow. We all grow. Shellen Lubin
Klutziness is endearing. I like imperfection. Elizabeth Banks
Imperfection facilitates improvement, perfection facilitates stagnation. Abhijit Naskar
There’s always room out there for the hand drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there’s plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well. Matt Groening
Learn to operate in the duality of owning your brilliance and your imperfections. Sope Agbelusi
The power of doing anything with quickness is always prized much by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. Jane Austen
The wise strive for their best. The foolish strive for perfection. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
With Girls I feel like there’s an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it’s always the imperfection I’m always more attracted to. Adam Driver
The young ladies might behave like they were smooth and sealed as alabaster statues underneath their clothes, but then they would drop their soiled shifts on the bedchamber floor, to be whisked away and cleansed, and would thus reveal themselves to be the frail, leaking, forked bodily creatures that they really were. Perhaps that was why they spoke instructions at her from behind an embroidery hoop or over the top of a book she had scrubbed away their sweat, their stains, their monthly blood; she knew they weren’t as rarefied as angels, and so they just couldn’t look her in the eye. Jo Baker
Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end. Annie Besant
Choosing authenticity means cultivating the courage to be imperfect. Brené Brown
Mississippi is an imperfect state, and I can predict with certainty that I will reflect that imperfection. Mississippians also strive for excellence, and I swear to reflect that as well. Tate Reeves
A lot of your sensuality has probably been considered as a character flaw. Lebo Grand
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not. Joseph Butler
There is a very thin line between wisely striving for your best and foolishly striving for perfection. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people’s lives. Steven Weber
I accepted the imperfections and broken parts of myself and in the process learned to accept the beauty in my brokenness.
Those who saw themselves reflected in the scattered pieces of my exposed life felt drawn, in spite of themselves, to play a part in my healing. Every friend I made in those years helped and healed me in myriad ways. Ranjani Rao
Catholicism actually resembles a family that survives because even as it aspires to holiness, it understands and can live with sin and imperfection. Eugene Kennedy
If there’s something that I’ve refined to near perfection it’s my imperfections. Craig D. Lounsbrough
I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Alice Walker saying that once she’d written a novel about a civil rights hero, and it was someone who had this flaw, this central flaw. Hector Tobar
This cellulite on her stomach is the first time that I ponder the relationship between popularity and imperfection and it is the very first time that I realized that they coexist. Ani Baker
Growing up, I was listening to a ton of Motown music, Otis Redding, Aretha, and then there was the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and Janis Joplin. These were all people that I felt as though they truly felt every single lyric they said, and they weren’t afraid of imperfection. Bishop Briggs
The nearer a man comes to the ideal he has created for himself in his feelings and imagination, the more painfully does he feel the imperfections in himself, even the smallest, which prevent him from attaining perfection. Juhani Siljo
As a real person, he wouldn’t last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we’ve moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House’s friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don’t always like morally good people, do we? Hugh Laurie
All matter is wonderful, because it can give birth to something even more wonderful. Juhani Siljo
My mother was a high strung perfectionist. She would check my homework for the slightest imperfection and demand that it be redone if she detected any flaws, which she invariably did. My father, in contrast, was easy going and affable and delighted in helping me with any project. Robert Lefkowitz
We have to get over the fear of being seen in a certain imperfect light if we want to stand any chance of really shining and being real, healed, and whole again. Oli Anderson
I like any film where the female characters are complex and have a functioning imperfection. Jenny Slate
The secret to finding peace in religion, is to attain an understanding that God Himself is far from perfect. T.M Cicinski
For the American economy, for any economy to grow, to truly innovate, we cannot leave behind half our population. We have to socialize our girls to be comfortable with imperfection, and we’ve got to do it now. We cannot wait for them to learn how to be brave like I did when I was 33 years old. Reshma Saujani